The officials dismissed last night by President Luis Abinader were reassigned to other positions, some in the country and others abroad.
Roberto Fulcar, formerly head of the Ministry of Education, was appointed minister without portfolio, with special functions to articulate, strengthen and align the strategic management of the Government.
Enrique Ramírez, who occupied the General Directorate of Immigration, was appointed consul in Boston, Massachusetts; Cesar Cedeño, who until yesterday was performing the duties of administrator of National Assets and the State Sugar Council, will serve as consul in San Juan Puerto Rico.
The former director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant), Rafael Ernesto Arias Ramírez, was assigned as adviser to the Executive Branch on transportation matters.
President Abinader appointed Ángel Enrique Hernández Castillo as Minister of Education, replacing Fulcar.
The change is contained in decree 414-22.
Hernández Castillo, current rector of the Open University for Adults (UAPA), was born in Jarabacoa, La Vega, on October 1, 1953.
He completed primary and secondary studies in Elías Piña, from where he moved to Santiago to pursue a degree in educational sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM).
In Education, Julio Ramón Cordero Espaillat was also appointed as Deputy Minister of Administrative Management, who was also an official during the management of that portfolio in the government of Hipólito Mejía, as Administrative Undersecretary.
The decree also provides for the dismissal of Rafael Arias Ramírez from his position as director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant), and he becomes an advisor to the Executive Branch on transportation matters.
“I will assume this commitment to implement the entire traffic, transportation and road safety plan with the determination and transparency that characterizes it,” he said.
Hugo Beras-Goico Ramírez was appointed as the new director of Intrant. From last February until this Wednesday, Beras-Goico Ramírez directed the Transportation Cabinet, where he was appointed after serving as Secretary General of the National District Mayor’s Office since April 2020.
In the General Directorate of Migration (DGM) Venancio Alcántara Valdez was appointed, who until last night was working as manager of intergovernmental management of the General Directorate of Customs (DGA).
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The Executive Power appointed a new director at the Dominican Postal Institute (Inposdom), which was directed on an interim basis by Katiusca del Carmen Báez, after the dismissal of Adán Peguero in November last year.
As the date of the second year of Abinader’s administration approaches, rumors of new changes increase, since many officials were appointed for only two years.
The new director of Inposdom is Erick Alberto Michael Guzmán Núñez, who until last night was deputy director of the Dominican Port Authority.
Change in CEA
President Abinader appointed Rafael Abrahán Burgos Gómez as honorary director of the CEA until its liquidation.
